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Lot 42
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[Amsterdam?], 1720. Folio. Title page (382 x 249mm.) in red & black. [2], 1-25[1], 1-52, (1)-31, i.e.29, [1], 1-8, 1-10pp. + additional related folding folio letterpress sheet with engraved vignette at front. Illustrated with 75 engraved or etched plates, including portrait of John Law, “frontispiece”, folding & double-page plates, maps, letterpress sheets with engraved vignettes. Contemporary mottled brown calf, stamped with gilt and blind panels and devices, richly gilt spine compartments, morocco spine label; lightly rubbed with joints cracked but holding; some soiling to title page and edges at front and back, else generally clean with a few scattered paper faults to text and plates. In undisturbed 18th century binding retaining its original end papers and front and back blanks. Sabin 28932.